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Forecast: Fair today and tomor
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Highest yesterday 97
fewest yesterday 61
Medford
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found on the Classified par
TR7 bune
this morning. It take very
little time to read these Advs.
and some very Important mes
sages are often directed right
at you Read then Act,
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United Press
Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUM DAY, JULY 21,' 193S
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By Joseph Alsop
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Robert Kintner
Copyright 1937, by The
North American News
paper Alliance, Ino.
POLITICAL BLUNDER IN
NEW YORK LAID TO F. R-
I.VBOK PARTY LOSES
BARGAINING POWER
LABORITBS, NOT DEMOS
HELD ROOSEVELT FRIENDS
FARLEY SEEN VICTOR
WITH PICKED TICKET
KEW YORK, July 24 Franklin De
lano Roosevelt's quaking enemies
usually describe him as a Dolttical
magician, but, unless he has been In
tentionally dealing the cards from
the bottom of the deck, ha has made
a strangely amateurish- blunder In
New York.
Borne time ago, Sidney Hlllman,
shrewd, daring leader of the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers and chief
tain of the American labor party,
visited the president to discuss run
ning for the senate against Governor
Herbert H. Lehman. For Lehman's
letter attacking the court plan and
other reasons, the president has a
grudge against the governor he will
not soon forget. And although Hlll
man Is not a Democrat, the president
personally encouraged him to seek
the senate job.
There followed the odd meetings
of the American labor party's admin
istrative committee, at which a tenta
tive slate was picked, with Hlllman
In the senate spot. The work waa
done In a slovenly fashion so sloven
ly that New York City Comptroller
Joe McGoldrlck, the choice -for gover
nor, was not even notified of his
good fortune. The slate wu an
nounced; the reporters hurried to
McGoldrlck, and his dazed reply to a
request for comment was, "Who?
Me?"
First result waa that David Dublns
ky, second man In the labor party,
repudiated Hlllman and backed Leh
man. Dublnsky had had a personal
representative at every administrative
committee meeting, but he hates
Hlllman, and seized, the chance to
plunge a knife In his rival's ribs.
The second result waa infinitely
worse. About forty-eight hours after
they had announced their slate, the
labor party leaders suddenly woke up
to the fact that they had lost their
power to bargain with the Democrats.
Although the president has repeated
his encouragement of Hlllman, there
la weeping and gnashing of teeth,
these days, among the labor party
people here and the C.I.O. leaders In
Washington.
You may well ask why destroying
the labor party's bargaining power
was a blunder on the president's part.
The answer Us simply that the labor
party leaders, and not the Democrats,
are the president' real friends In
New York.
The New York Democratic organ) ra
tions are lined up behind Big Jim
Farley, and the genial postmaster
general has Ideas about running the
party very different from the presi
dent's. Until now, the' president and
his new deal advisers have relied on
the labor party, with Its big Indepen
dent vote, to club the Democrats Into
line. But now, with a slate already
announced, the labor party has no
real threat left to do the clubbing
with. The labor party people are
angry, because they see their hopes
of reward, In congressional and ju
dicial places, all gone glimmering.
' Everything may change before the
state conventions, but it looks now
as though the president, in a moment
of unthinking optimism, had given
New York to Jim Farley for his very
own.
Big Jim had his plana. The real
blua chip In New York Is the state
delegation to the 1940 convention.
And tf the most authoritative in for
ma tluon is to be credited. Big Jim
has that sewed up already. Indeed,
he haa told more than one friend
that they couldn't take the delegates
away from him if they ran the Angel
Gabriel for governor. All that re
mains for Big Jim to do ts sweep up
the pieces.
His plan for doing that Is best.
Lehman will have the annate post he
wants, leaving the governorship open.
When Big Jim returns from Alaska,
he will call on Senator Robert F.
Wagner.
He will tell Wagner that the gov
norshlp of New York ts the second
blggeit Job In the country, and that
Its good for eight years. He will
point out that, by running for gover
nor. Wagner can aare his party from
poeslbl defeat and provide a fitting
cllmai to his career. In fact, he will
(Coaunued on Pag fittta)
CROP LOSS HIGH
FLOODJN SOUTH
Week's Downpour Causes
Heavy Damage, Maine
: To Florida Midwest
Weather Normal.
(By the Associated Prass)
Rain that continued pouring after
as many as seven successive days in
some sections had caused at least
eight deaths by last night (Saturday)
and done damage totaling millions to
crops, Homes, shops, roads, railroads
and communication lines from Maine
to Florida and westward to Texas.
(By The Associated Press)
Damage and discomfort spread last
night along the Atlantic seaboard
from Maine to Florida, through part
of the Gulf states and In Southwest
Texas, as rain which has fallen Inter
mittently through most of the week
showed little sign of diminishing.
While the cumulative losses to
crops, highways, bridges and private
property waa extensive In the eastern
states, the greatest losses probably
were suffered In Texas where the
Colorado, the San Saba, Leon, Lam
pasas and other rivers were fed by
torrential ralna and overflowed their
banks.
Two persons were reported drowned
near the town of San Saba between
400 and 500 persona were homeless In
the lowland-sheep country as numer
ous houses were washed away. Dam
age in the towns ran upwards from
$300,000 with no estimate made of
losses In the purely rural areas.
Texas Streams Rage
The San Saba river, normally two
or three feet deep, rose to 44 feet,
two feet above Its previous record.
The brown flood swept through the
town's residential district, flooding
cellara, and drew ever nearer the
business area. Water systems were
disabled, communication lines
crippled.
, A navy bombing plane flying blind
In a driving rainstorm crashed near
Wood bridge, conn., killing Ita pilot
and two passengers.
Another person was killed and five
persons Injured In the crash of a
bus which skidded down a bill in the
rain and hit a concrete abutment at
Hackettstown, W. J.
In the East the rain, varying from
dismal showers to blinding down
pours, disrupted highway traffic,
caused some minor delays to railroad
traffic, flooded cellars and streets,
swept away numerous email bridges,
but on effective damper on outdoor
sports and amusements and sank
thousands of summer vacationists at
seaside and mountain resorts Into her
deepening gloom, ,
I -egenl Scouted
The Weather bureau scoffed lightly
at the readiness of some laymen to
attribute the continuing cloudiness
and rain to the fact that rain fell
In part of the east on St. Swlthln's
Day, July 15. Not given to supersti
tion the weather bureau said there
was a high pressure area off the At
lantic coast from Maine to Florida.
This area was an effective barrier
against the natural eastward move
ment of the low pressure area. The
result: Rain.
At least another day of rain could
be expected, the forecasters said.
Weather In the middle and far west
was normal, however. Chicago's base
ball fans gleefully watched the New
York Giants and the Cubs play a
doubleheader under a blazing sun,
the horses ran at Arlington, golfers
thronged the private and public
courses, yachtsmen smiled at the blue
skies and plcknlckers had nothing
but ants and the usual picnic woea
to worry about, but no rain.
The Connecticut state highway de-
partment estimated about 110,000
damage caused by washouts, but
added that state highways generally
were In good condition. In the Con
necticut valley the damage to the
tobacco crop waa estimated at about
$1,000,000, due chiefly to excessive
moisture which reduces the value
The river, which haa a flood level of
16 feet, rose to 7 3.
Maine Saggy
Maine's weather was sogigy and the
weather bureau reported an Inch and
a half rainfall above normal for July
Boston's rainfall for July to date a
7.48 inches, of which nearly 6 Inches
fell thla week. At Worcester. Mass
the July rainfall was 9.4ft Inches, up
to yesterday, compared with 935 In
1915 when a record waa made The
army worm was causing heavy dam
age to crops, farmers reported, and in
Clinton, Mass., the Wachusett Dam,
holding 07 billion gallon! of water,
was sptUtng the overflow for th
first time In 10 years.
A tor I a Feels Quake
ASTORIA. July 33. 'P Windows
rattled and tables skidded during a
mild earth shock felt here at 6;49
p. m. yesterday. Residents, who rushed
into the streets, said there mere five
distinct shocks In the space of about
10 econd
Fighters
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The U. 8. 8. Penwiroln steaming up the timber bordered Cnlumhlu
of several bringing 10,000 gobs. tQ. ft. port 00 miles from the Parlflc. (AP
F.D.R.
HELD REASON FOR
OF
Washington Solon Blurps
At Democrat Lunch
President Near Equatorial
Crossing.
TACOMA, July 23. (T) Congress
man John M. Coffee, addressing a
Democratic luncheon here today,
credited large federal grants for pub
lic works In Washington to "the state
congressional delegation's friendliness
with the administration." and "be
cause the president's daughter lives
in Seattle."
His references to the reasons why
"Washington has been given more
federal money per capita than any
other state In the union" were used
In Illustrating the value of keeping
a full slate of office holders "favor
able to President Roosevelt's pro
gram."
Coffee urged for a united Demo
cratic front In order to gain a com
plete victory for the party In the fall
elections.
Aboard Cruiser Houston, En Route
to Galapagos Island, July 33. ()
President Roosevelt today exchanged
wireless felicitations with Crown
Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden while
the Houston approached the equator
on Its move to a new fishing area
for the chief executive.
Gustaf Adolf, homeward bound
aboard a ship In the Atlantic after
concluding a visit to the United
States, sent a message of thanks to
the president, and Mr. Roosevelt an
swered it Immediately.
Holiday routine for all hands
aboard the Houston and the accom
panying destroyer McDougal was de
clared at 1 p. m. ship's time when
the cruiser was only a few miles
north of the equator, and the crossing-line
watch was set for Davy
Jonea and Neptune.
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MOSCOW, July 23. (AP) Soviet
Russia through her newspapers pic
tured Japan today as so entangled
In trying to conquer China that
her "diplomatic forces had to be
called in to rescue the militarists"
from trying to touch off a conflict
with Russia.
Despite another Slbcrlan-Mnn-choukuoan
frontier incident, In
which Japanese-Manchoukuoan sold
iers were reported to have failed In
an attempt to occupy an Island In
the Usslrl river, Soviet circles viewed
the possibility of Russo-Japanese
W8r as a diminishing threat.
Dispatches from the Siberian city.
Khabarovsk, said the second Inci
dent this month occurred north of
Chsngkufeng where Japan had ac
cused Red soldiers of occupying a
bit of Mnnchoukuan territory.
The clash came the day following
a Japanese protest against occupa
tion of the Changfukeng district
a protest rejected by Foreign Com
missar Maxim Lltvinoff with the
statement that the area Ilea within
Siberia
The government newspaper Izves
tla charged Japanese militarists with
manufacturing both Incidents but
echoed the general Russian belief
that the possibility of war had de
clined The Japanese . militarists have
their mouths full of China," lavestla
said.
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WASHINOTON. July 2S. Sen
ator Borah (R- Idaho) walked a few
steps today for the first time in
nearly three weeka.
The 73-year-old "Hon of Mnho"
haa been raged In hli apartment here
Blnee doctors ordered him to bed for
a long reM from overexertion during
the recent session of congress.
An office assistant disclosed that
Borah had been "a very alck man"
and that doctors were pleased by his
recuperative powers.
They aald the senator had no Idea
of giving up hla place on the con
gressional -administrative committee
undertaking a study of monopoly.
I airs, tsoran win reporters enc ana
i tl:e fiei:a;or would "go aoir.e r.li.ce
I where It's coot" as soon as ha can
traral
Mighty River
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FARM TENANT
PROJECT FAVORED
Lane Also Recommended
Final Word Rests With
Secretary Wallace.
PORTLAND, July 23. (AP) The
Oregon farm security administration
advisory committee recommended to
day to Secretary Wallace that Jack
son and Lane counties be designated
for Initiation of the 1938-30 farm
tenant program, for which $82,016 has
bern allotted In this state.
The program is Intended to give
ii bout 14 farmers loans upon which
they may make purchases of farms
costing on an average between 96.000
and $7,000. The plan was launched In
this state last year with Linn county
being chosen for start of the experi
ment In reestablishing worthy farm
ers on suitable iaiyls.
The committee recommendation for
Jai-kson and Lane counties was based
on the percentage of farm tenrincy,
farm population and availability of
farm units and opportunities for
diversified farming. Pinal approval
rests with Secretary Wallace, who, tf
he accepts the recommendation, wilt
appoint county tenant committees to
select the farmers.
The state committee, after a tour
of the six farms established last year
in Unn county with an appropria
tion of 1.17,160, complimented the
Linn county committee on the high
type of tenants selected, the excel
lence of soil types on 'farm lands
chosen and the comparatively low
prices paid for the properties. The
farmers have 40 'years In which to
psy for the property with an interest
rate of three per cent
WARM. THIS WEEK
Weather forecast for Sunday, July
24:
Northern California: Pair Sunday
but fog on coast; little change In
temperature; variable wind, mostly
northeast, off coast.
Oregon: Fair Sunday with local
fogs on coast; slightly cooler in
eastern Oregon; moderate to freh
northerly wind off coast.
Outlook fsr western states July 25
30. Inclusive: Oenraliy fair but occa
sional thunder torrr.s ever mountains:
temperatures somewhat above normal
la Interior.
Fires In State and
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week festivities Thft wnrshlp ts one
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BETTER BUSINESS
ON WAY VIEW OF
NEW YORK, July 23, (AP) Bet
ter business, improved economic well
being, seems on the way in re
maining months of 1038, In the
sweeping majority opinion of more
than a score of leading economists.
Of 33 who answered an Inquiry
as to their opinion on the prospect
of business recovery, all but three
predicted Improvement by the end
of the year, some with reservations.
Such near unanimity was regarded
In economto circles as unusual, If
not unprecedented. It was thought
particularly significant, In that opin
ions were sought from a broad
cross-section of men holding varied
and conflicting economic and social
philosophies, from the extreme right
to the far left, and scattered geo
graphically across the continent.
But several of the optimists care
fully qualified their opinions as to
the nearness of arrival, degree of
rise, and length of the recovery
movement.
If the majority are correct. It will
not be a "boom." Only one used
the term "boom."
While nearly all predicted a brisk
gtck-up In the consumer goods
fields, wholesale and retail, many
qualified their optimism as to heavy
Industries.
PAROLE GRANTED
O RANTS PASS, July S3 (API
Over protest of District Attorney O. J.
Millard. Circuit Judge H. D. Norton
today paroled E. N. Santee, convicted
bigamist.
Parole provisions require Santee to
keep out of trouble and to keep out
or the state except as civil litigation
may require. He waa not required to
report to any' person.
Two of Santee's spouses died In
Grants Paas. christian Santee of the
state of Washington was recogntaed
by the court aa the real estate dealer's
wife when It rejected validity of
Mexican divorce.
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Worker Burned to Heath
DALLAS. Ore.. July S3. r R. R.
Striker, regular employe at the Cobbs.
Mitchell ValaetK mill, was burned to
death Friday night In a tire which
awept timber In the truck logging
road west of the mill, according to
word reaching here today. While
Striker was mUrrd la.n night It was
not until today hla body waa found
with both legs burned off.
TEA
IN TEXAS VOTING
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New Deal Congressmen
Have Hard Contests In
Early Count Unknown
Ahead For Governor.
DALLAS, July 33. (A5) Returns to
the Texas election bureau from 167
of 354 counties, with five complete,
and representing 323,188 votes, showed
the following totals for loaders In the
governor's race In the Democratic
primary:
O'Danlel, 180,785. .
Thompson, 60,378,
McGraw, 47,353.
Hunter, 88,320. '
DALLAS, July 33. OF) W. Lee
O'Danlel, devotee of hillbilly music
who waa unheralded In the governors
race six weeks ago, had nearly 50
percent of the votes reported tonight
In the state Democratic primary.
With 107.710 votes accounted for
from SO of 354 counties, O'Danlel
received 41,030.
In a close race for the runner-up
post unless a candidate gains a clear
majority, there will be a run-off next
month between the top two men
Ernest O. Thompson forged ahead of
Atty. den. William McGraw,
Thompson, red-haired chairman of
the Interstate oil compaot commla
slon, had 33,477 votes to McGraw's
18, 373 1
Other candidates wart far behind
In returns to the Texas election
bureau,
Rep. Maury Maverick San Antonio's
militant New Dealer waa having the
fight of his life with Paul KUday.
lawyer backed by the powerful city
machine. They were only IS votes
apart, with KUday ahead
Maverick had 0,360 to KUday 'a 0,373
In returns from 183 preclncta, four
complete.
In two other races Incumbent con
pressmen were trailing.
Rep. W. D. McFarlane had 430 votes
to 754 for the man he narrowly
defeated two year ago, Ed Goasett.
Orady Gentry, Smith county Judge,
was ahead of Rep. Morgan Sanders,
841 to 516, In the Tyler district.
The total number of votes expected
to be cast In state contests was
between 760,000 and 1,000,000.
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:ST
TWO WEEKS NOTED
The temperature dropped to 87
degrees yesterday, lowest alnce July
It when It was 87, Vesterday'a max
imum compared with OS tor Fri
day and the year's high of 108 set
last Wednesday, Lowest yesterday
waa 81.
The weather bureau held out hope
for at least a little additional relief
when It forecast lower temperature
for Monday. Pair weather waa pre
dicted for today.
Humidity yesterday dropped to 18
percent,
PORTLAND, July 33. (AP) After
two days of 101 heat and another
In the mld-90's, Portland'a temper.
ature sagged mercifully today to a
maximum of 72 degrees.
SIT-DOWN RELIEF
E
NEW YORK, July 33. P Police
made short work of a alt-down atrlke
of 36 persons, Including 13 women, at
a Bronx home relief office last night.
They turned off the lights, closed
the windows and barred the doors
to sympathizers bearing food and
blankets.
The strikers, sweltering In a room
without fresh air, light or food, gave
up in disgust and left the building.
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STRIKE END PLAN
SAW FRANCISCO, July 33. (AP)
A new "back-to-work" proposal
by the American Can company waa
rejected tale today by apokesmen
for 1.350 CIO workers who have
been on atrlke for a month at
plants In San Francisco. Oakland.
Loe Angeles and Sacramento.
County
REESE CRK. BLAZE
AREAJNJLAIS
Situation .Jackson County
Improves But Still Acute
Death Toll Past Week
Fifteen.
nmu. fmir new fires occurred yes
terday on the Rogue River national
fortst, the general situation in wua
iuiii, v tun. mnnh lmnraved. The
four new blazes were all reported al
small.
pla ..at. fnrent flra between Reese.
and Indian oreeks In the Butte Falla
area was brought under control tor.
4,. iMrnnA time last evening after
wind In the late afternoon whlf"
ped the flames across the trail that
v..rf hn hunt around It. Thirty men.
using a pumper truck and a marine
pump, were still ngnung mo um
last night. There were positively n
farms or homes In danger, the dis
trict fire warden'a office said. Lee
piri Jr.. asalstant warden, waa In
charge of the flre-flgiitlng erew.
T.in helnir held last night
on the state forest fire at Round Top
In Evan valley and tne null creea;
fire In Josephine county waa under,
control, the warden'a office stated.
The Huckleberry mountain lire on
the Rogue River national forest wa
still under control laat night. A crew
of 110 men with three bulldoaeri
and two pumpera were on the blaxe
yesterday and 80 men were to patrol
It during the nlslit, headquortera
here aald. K. O. Obye. assistant auper
vlsor, W. L. Jones, construction au-.
perlntendent, and Slmerl Jarvl, fire
chief all returned from the fire tej
Medford headquartera Friday evening.
The four now fires were situated
in the Huckleberry mountain area,
tt-iah rreeic district near the
n..... T.V. n.tinnai nark boundary.
at the head of Butte fork In the Ap
plegate and near the Buck Rock look
out in the Trail area.
.ii tnemutrv nersonnel was belnt
held on emergency duty for tiie aec
ond successive week-end. With vis
ibility remaining low. all emergenoy
guards were also being kept on pat
rol.
While all Rogue River national for
est recreational areas were being
kept open to the public, visitors to
some of the pleasure spots wore be-
lng registered aa publlo service,
headquarters announced. The regis
tration, It waa emphasized, waa no
to curtail recreational activities but
to enlist the help of visitors In re
porting any flrea ttiey might die
cover and to keep tabs on the people
.u-. fAMit miarda WOUld knoW
aw " " " o
where they were In case of emergen
cies. .
Rogue River national forest head
quartera dispatched additional men.
pack norsca ana t
Friday to Oesquet and Brookings t
help fight Siskiyou national fores
fires.
(By Associated Press)
Fighters gained today In their bat
.i. ..,., i7n Oregon fires but the
situation remained acute and sev
eral big conflagrations were ami un
controlled. A new fire. 13 milea west of Agneaa,
mid-Rogue River community, cover
ed nearly 400 acrea and was not con
trolled. The Chetco blaze tt'at haw
scorched 10.000 acrea Jumped the
Chetco river In the Siskiyou national
forest and moved northwest with
1000 men fighting It.
The Nome creek blaze, covering:
1800. In southern Oregon, was check
ed at leaat temporarily.
Near Jefferson, Ore., two Oregon
electrlo railroad bridge were dam
aged by fire, one seriously, late Frl-
W- .....
The Bland mounuun
atarted more than 40 fire along Day
creek near Roseburg thla week, wa
at work again Friday and set out
from 10 to 18 flrea.' They were au
brought under control.
The 30,000-acre Smith river blaze
In Douglas county wsa held within
Its bounds by laboring crew.
Ti:e 8000-acre fire near the head
waters of Big creek In Clatsop coun
ty waa controlled by 450 fighter, ald-i
ed by rising humidity and cooling
temperature. -
The fire which started Friday in
lash of the Cobbs-Mltchell company
near Valseta covered 3500 acre of
brush and timber. Only a log pond, It
waa aald, prevented It from sweeping
through the town. Stryker, waa burn
ed to death In thl bilze.
Stryker' deaO wa the eecond
among fore at fire fighter and
brought Oregon' fire, heat and
drowning fatality total during the
week to 15.
n.mntura senerallv were low
er over the tate although Baker.
Bend. Burrs and laaeview gov
degree heat. Pendleton 108 and
Oranta Paas 100.